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I know why the caged bird sings

by: Angelou, Maya

Publication date: 1980

Topics: Angelou, Maya -- Childhood and youth, Angelou, Maya, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography, African American women -- Biography, African American women, African American authors, Authors, American

Publisher: New York : Bantam Books

Collection: internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; bannedbooks; americana; The-ZORA-Canon-collection; books; additional_collections; printdisabled

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Item Size: 631.0M

246 pages ; 18 cm

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice"--Wikipedia, viewed November 2, 2020

Autobiography

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